Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE TUMBLE straight back on the enormo-bus after the gig and travel for five hours to New York in preparation for playing at the NY Academy two nights later . |
| 2 | The orchestra is viewed as one instrument for playing on the strings of the emotions for this is the main aim of music in India . |
| 3 | She warns against what can sometimes be a knee-jerk support of abortion technology for fear of playing into the hands of the right wing . |
| 4 | After a full term of playing to the changes I would like to applaud the lawmakers and suggest that the game may benefit by adopting some , if not all , in the senior game . |
| 5 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 6 | We played our match on level terms , with Sally having the advantage of playing from the ladies ' tees , which can be anything up to forty or fifty yards ahead of the men 's . |
| 7 | Closeted in the conference palace at Taif — itself built by a Lebanese-born millionaire — the MPs found themselves unable to exercise their normal function of playing to the gallery . |
| 8 | Both of these will already be present in the patch to some degree , but if you want more reverb , for instance , this is simply a case of playing with the reverb ‘ level ’ and ‘ time ’ controls . |
| 9 | ‘ There are 11 players who can not wait to get this game started and as soon as those Scotland jerseys are pulled over our heads the dream of playing against the world champions will give way to proving individual worth , ’ said Robertson . |
| 10 | Now Easter was taken up with the sort of playing in the streets virtually . |
| 11 | Worse is the sacrifice of theological integrity for the sake of playing to the gallery . |
| 12 | You always know you 'll get nothing short of 110 per cent and he 's still got a great appetite for playing at the top level . |
| 13 | YEOVIL TOWN captain Mark Shail was heartbroken last night over the rash moment which may cost him the chance of playing in the dream FA Cup tie against Arsenal . |
| 14 | ‘ But I wo n't know how bad the damage is until I see the physio tomorrow , and then I may have an idea if I have a chance of playing in the first league game . ’ |
| 15 | With the prospect of a European Cup final place for the winners — and little hope for the losers — only Trevor Steven is thought to have a realistic chance of playing against the Belgians . |
| 16 | In 1801 he published a valuable pedagogical work , Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte . |
| 17 | Well , he did n't get his wish and the prospect of playing against the Scarlets in the semis on the back-to back Bank Holiday occasion will be a daunting one . |
| 18 | In Ireland the prospect of playing in the second World Cup brought the arm-wrestling contest between the powerful Irish Universities and the students union to an end . |
| 19 | The prospect of playing in the Premier Division for the first time in the decade which has elapsed since he played for Rangers has put a spring in the striker 's step . |
| 20 | When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified . |
| 21 | In addition to playing for the clubs in league competitions she also enjoys pairs and triples games with fellow bowlers . |
| 22 | The piece was played for all its worth , and more , but vulgarity disappeared , the sense of playing to the gallery that dogs the piece . |
| 23 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 24 | She was elated at having pocketed some £400,000 over the season and at the thought of playing in the Solheim Cup , but , also confessed to disliking the life in general and the travel in particular . |
| 25 | Diane Mynors saved us from oblivion by playing in the Oxford Women 's first eleven cricket team which defeated Cambridge . |
| 26 | And national coach Davies was so impressed that he wants a full video shown to all clubs as the perfect illustration of playing under the new laws . |
| 27 | ‘ And I 've got the challenge of playing with the best players in the best stadiums . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But it yields a lot of bogeys and the pressure of playing in the Masters adds to the notoriety . ’ |
| 29 | It is , though , more overtly apparent when he attempts to limit the damage to the atmosphere of the conversation caused by McKendrick 's accusation of his insincerity when praising Stoke university : Rather than make a straightforward denial , Anderson tries to diffuse the tension with humour by playing on the literal sense of McKendrick 's accusation. his display of urbane wit brings about some laughter from McKendrick but it also elicits a sardonic comment which is a valid observation on Anderson 's character . |
| 30 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |